Ignoramus7068 wrote:
|| I can relate my experience with "portion controlled dieting" vs. "low
|| carb dieting".
||
|| Contrary to what that expert says, volume of food, quantity of water
|| etc, does not have a big effect on my satiety. (except for the first
|| few days, probably the same for others that show in short term
|| experiments) I could have my stomach completely full of water and
|| vegetables and still be hungry, meaning thinking about food and
|| wanting more.
||
|| Second, saying that low carb diets are really low calorie diets
|| because, even though the dieter eats all he wants, he eats low cal,
|| completely misses the point.

I don't think that statement misses the point, it just makes a different
one.

||
|| The point is that a person who would not regulate his calorie intake
|| on a high carb diet, can now regulate it on a high fat diet. The
|| calorie regulation system that was thought to be broken, can work by
|| itself, once I changed what I eat. If I overeat fat, I skip the next
|| meal or eat a lot less afterwards, because I am not hungry.

I agree. But I think non-low-carbers who don't have issues with BG control
just can't understand this point.

||
|| For me, low carb is not a "metabolic loophole", using Dr Atkins
|| words. It is not "cheating the system". It is a way to eat to
|| function normally, in the sense that such that normal appetite can
|| control weight.
||
|| My hope is that this low carbing is not harmful to my health and that
|| my body won't adapt to it, after a while, in ways that would make me
|| gain weight on LC.

I can't imagine such a thing as you body adapting to LC so that you start
gaining weight. What I can imagine is you becoming bored and wanting to eat
other things, down the road. It can happen to anyone.